Peter Coyote
Biography
Peter Coyote (born Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon; October 10, 1941) is an American actor, author, director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audio books. His voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics and Apple's iPad campaign. He has also served as on-camera co-host of the 2000 Oscar telecasts. Coyote was one of the founders of the Diggers, an anarchist improv group active in Haight-Ashbury during the mid-1960s. Coyote was also an actor, writer and director with the San Francisco Mime Troupe; his prominence in the San Francisco counter-culture scene led to his being interviewed for the noted book, Voices from the Love Generation. He acted in and directed the first cross-country tour of the Minstrel Show, and his play Olive Pits, co-authored with Mime Troupe member Peter Berg, won the Troupe an Obie Award from the Village Voice. Coyote became a member, and later chairman, of the California Arts Council from 1975 to 1983. In the late 1970s, he shifted from acting on stage to acting in films. In the 1990s and 2000s, he acted in several television shows. He speaks fluent Spanish and French.
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Movies (36)
Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters
as Narrator (voice)
2025
O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder
as Self
2025
The Program
as Narrator (voice)
2024
Good Men
as Self
2024
Bad Faith
as Narrator (voice)
2024
Fields of Gold
as Narrator
2023
Spirit of Golf
as Self
2023
Against All Enemies
as Narrator
2023
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
as Self
2022
Moment of Contact
as Narrator (voice)
2022
The Weight of a Feather: The Liberty Wildlife Story
as Narrator
2022
The Last Stand
as Narrator (voice)
2022
A Cloud Never Dies
as Narrator (voice)
2022
The Co-op Wars
as Narrator (voice)
2021
San Francisco Stories
as Narrator/SInger
2021
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
as Sam Donovan
2021
Wandering...But Not Lost
as Narrator
2021
Nepal Beyond
as Narrator
2021
Downwinders and the Radioactive West
as Narrator (voice)
2021
Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve
as Narrator
2021
The Phenomenon
as Narrator (voice)
2020
About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Allied Forces
as Narrator (voice)
2020
Sunseed: The Journey
as Narrator (voice)
2020
Almost Thirteen
as Narrator
2020
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
as Self
2019
Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2019
Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey
as narrator
2019
The Atomic Tree
as Narrator
2019
The Remarkable Life of John Weld
as Narrator
2018
As If They Were Angels
as Narrator
2018
The Mayo Clinic
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2018
Summer of Love
as Himself
2018
The Etruscan Smile
as Professor
2018
Saving Atlantis
2018
Spielberg
as Self
2017
Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties
2017
TV Shows (14)
The American Revolution
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2025
Kennedy
as Narrator (voice)
2023
The American Buffalo
as Narrator (voice)
2023
San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2023
La Californie !
as Self - Actor / Activist
2023
The U.S. and the Holocaust
as Self - Narrator
2022
Benjamin Franklin
as Narrator (voice)
2022
The Tent Mender
as as Narrator
2021
Hemingway
as Narrator (voice)
2021
The Comey Rule
as Robert Mueller
2020
Helter Skelter: An American Myth
as Self - Actor, Diggers Early Core Member
2020
Country Music
as Narrator
2019
The Disappearance
as Henry Sullivan
2017
The Vietnam War
as Narrator (voice)
2017